Heather McCollum, assistant professor of family and child studies and Robbie Auger Watson Endowed Professor at Louisiana Tech, is currently working on an innovative diabetes research project.

It’s no secret that times have changed with increasingly advanced medical technology in recent years, and Louisiana Tech University is working to help ensure that diabetes patients are keeping up with the pace.

Heather McCollum, an assistant professor of family and child studies and Robbie Auger Watson Endowed Professor at Tech, is currently working on an innovative diabetes research project to see how to best present information to new patients who have recently been diagnosed with the disease.

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